Calculating odds

i was trying to calculate the odds of winning the lotto 6/49 6 diffrent numbers and the numbers go from 1 - 49 could any one calculate it and show me the formula i thought it would be 49*48*47...*43 but that does not seem right
thanks

i was trying to calculate the odds of winning the lotto 6/49 6 diffrent numbers and the numbers go from 1 - 49 could any one calculate it and show me the formula i thought it would be 49*48*47...*43 but that does not seem right
thanks

The probability of choosing the winning number would be 1 out of the number of ordered 6-character strings you can create from a 49 character set without replacement. The latter number is what you calculated, 49 choices for the first character multiplied by 48 choices for the second character, and so on for 6 factors.